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                                Should pot farms be near neighborhoods?

 

 

While working the other day I had a lady come in and began to complain. She had just found out that they are wanting to put a commercial marijuana farm next to her neighborhood. To say the least she was not very happy about it, I understand her concern but her being my costumer I didn’t want to tell her that sometimes it’s hard to wrap your mind around something you don’t entirely understand.

When talking to and reading most peoples statements they argument begins talking mostly with the crime that will begin to grow in their communities. They think people will try to be breaking in there all the time trying to steal marijuana but I wonder if anyone thought of this when they put a liquor store in their neighborhood, or a local brewery. These things have just as high of a demand for thieves as would a marijuana farm.

These places would have a lot higher security than just a regular business. This would detour most criminals away form even attempting to break into them. There are also lots of marijuana facility’s right down town that have yet to be a target for a crime spree. These already facilities (mostly medical) have a lot of finished product that you would want. The farms themselves might produce but most finish product would not be held there.

People also have an issue that they don’t want their kids to see pot farms as they are driving home but most will probably not be seen. I can agree that this would be unpleasant and as most will have high fencing, it should be required. Also as the times go on, it’s another concept like alcohol we might have to explain to our children what it is, its ganna be advertised everywhere anyways. They have  already seen it on the news for 2 years.

This is a something that will have to start being treated as an agricultural product. This way it can be controlled more by the way we grow it. How much chemical? Is it really organic?

This will also bring up a local economy. Local business owners that have spent money into this business is now being put on a standstill and everyday losing money that could start being used to put back into the economy.